On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Derek Martin wrote:
> If you can name one thing that FTP gets you that can't be accomplished
> another way, just as conveniently, I'll buy into the line that FTP has
> it's place.

  Directory listings is about the only thing I can think of.  Yah, you can
generate an HTML directory on a web server, but it's completely ad hoc, as
opposed to the just de facto listing format of FTP.

  (You did ask.  :-)

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